A comprehensive model for the aetiology of otitis media with effusion

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 784-791

  Straetemans, M ^a   Van Heerbeek, N ^a   Tonnaer, E ^a   Ingels, K J A O ^a   Rijkers, G T ^b   Zielhuis, G A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOVIRUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY TUBE; CORONAVIRUS; GAS EXCHANGE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MODEL; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0035662621     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/mehy.2001.1494     Document Type: Article

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